Display-rack.



W. J. MADOLE & C. V. KRIDER.

DISPLAY RACK.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. I5. 1916.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 22, 1917.

Application filed August 15, 1916. Serial No. 115,042.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, lVILLIAM J. MADoLn and CLEMENT V. Knmnn, citizens of the United States, residing at Paris, in the county of Henry and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display-Racks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices for supporting merchandise in accessible trays in retail stores, designed more particularly for supporting rolls of material, such'as mosquito screen material, and has for one of its objects to improve the construction, and in-- crease the convenience and eliicioncy of devices of this character.

Another object of the invention is to provide a stand or support for a plurality of rolls of screen or other species of wire material, wherein the material may be kept in convenient position to be unrolled to any desired length without removal of the rolls from the stand.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which is portable and readily movable from place to place.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described, and then particularly pointed out in the claims; and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved device;

Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail of a portion of one of the supporting devices to illustrate their construction;

Fig. 1 is a sectional detail illustrating the manner of bracing the holders.

The improved device includes a supporting frame having a base portion 10 provided with rollers or casters 11, vertical side members 12, a horizontal upper member 13, and connecting supporting members 14, the latter being inclined to the vertical plane of the members 12. i

The base member 10 is extended laterally, as shown in Fig. 2, to secure the requisite stability, and the members 14: are arranged in pairs at each side of the members 13 and 10 so that two sets of the supporting devices may be employed, as shown in Fig. 2.

The roll-supporting devices are precisely alike and a description of one will sufiice for all. Each supporting device comprises divided bands 15 riveted or otherwise secured to the members 1-1 with the divisions of the bands presented outwardly and the terminals rolled into bearings 16 to receive rods 17, the latter being spaced apart and extending at their ends beyond the members 15. The members 15, it will be noted, are arranged in pairs and connected to the members 14 in horizontal alinement. The rolls of material, indicated conventionally at 18, are inserted endwise into the members 15 and the free end of the roll passed between the rods 17. By this means, it will be obvious that the roll is effectually supported and may be readily unrolled by drawing the protruding end outwar'dlybetween the rods 17 The roll is thus effectually held by the bands 15 and will readily unroll, while at the same time, the cylinder form of the roll will be maintained. The roll of material will thus be protected and maintained in convenient position for the clerk, and any length of material may be drawn out and cut off without interfering withthe remainder of the material on the roll. Any required number of the bands may be employed, but for the purpose of illustration five of the holding devices are shown at each side of the frame, thus providing for holding ten of the rolls of material. The bands are arranged at increasing distances apart from the top to the bottom, as illustrated in Fig. 1, the oblique arrangement of the'supports 14 providing for this arrangement of the bands, to provide for rolls of diiferent lengths.

Attached to each of the bands 15 at one side of the supporting frame is an L-shaped stop 19, and a brace 20 is connected at one end to the member 14 and extends at the other end beneath the member 19, the three parts 15, 19 and 20 being connected together by a single rivet. By this means, the bands 15 with which the members 19 are as sociated are effectually supported and a stop 19 provided to limit the endwise movement of the roll of screen material in one direction. Another L-shaped stop 21 is connected to one of the terminal members 12 0f the frame and projects transversely of the band at the opposite side from the stop 19. The inner terminal of each of the members 21 projecting laterally serves as a stop to limit the endwise movement of the roll in a direction opposite from the stop 19. By this means, the roll is prevented from abnormal endwise movement while, at the same time, left free to be unrolled, as before described. Each of the pairs of bands 15 is provided with its own stops 19-21 and brace 20. At the side adjacent to the stops 21, the braces 20 are connected by rivets or other suitable devices directly to the bands 15, as'the stops 19 are located at one side only of the apparatus. The members 21 are of relatively light resilient material and may be bent laterally to permit the rolls of material to be inserted, or the members 21 may be attached to the frame after the rolls have been inserted. The base members 10 and the vertical members 12 are suitably supported by suitable brace devices 22.

The side members 12 and the members 14 are preferably further supported and strengthened by one or more transverse struts 23.

The upper member 13 is preferably provided with a plurality of apertures, indicated at 24, to receive the handle portions of brooms, mops and like devices for display,

the latter not being shown as they form no part of the present invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. In a device of the class described, a support, a plurality of divided holders connect ed to said support, the terminals of each sup port being bent into a loop, a guide rod engaged in each loop and forming guides for the material in the holders, a stop for each of said holders, a brace device for each of said holders each connected at one end to said support, and a fastening device connecting the other end of each brace to one of the holders and to one of the stops.

2. In a device of the class described, a support, a plurality of divided holders arranged in pairs and connected to said support, the terminals of each support being bent into a loop, and a guide rod engaged in each opposite pair of said loops and forming guides for the material in the holders.

In testimony whereof We afiiX our signatures.

WILLIAM J. MADOLE. CLEMENT V. KRIDER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. 0. 

